That's true enough, and one of the things that makes Elgar's music so interesting is that he combined the influences of Brahms and Wagner at a time when those composers were thought to represent two opposing camps (some musicians were "Brahmsian" -- favouring traditional symphonic structure, absolute music, counterpoint, etc; others were "Wagnerian," favouring programmatic music, and privileging advanced harmony over rhythm or traditional structure). From Wordnik.com. [Japes and Counterpoint] Reference
And yes, the Schubert did sound "Brahmsian," but I don't think that's a particularly good thing. From Wordnik.com. [Evaluating Judges] Reference
Etude X, for want of a better term, has always struck me as "Brahmsian" for its double octaves. From Wordnik.com. [Audiophile Audition Headlines] Reference
MTT definitely played it for drama, and succeeded in bringing a Brahmsian grandeur and intensity to the piece. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-05-01] Reference
Both the symphony and the trio invite listeners to say, “That sounds like Schumann!” and “Mendelssohn!” and “How Brahmsian!”. From Wordnik.com. [On CD: A forgotten composer's 3rd symphony] Reference
The Sorcerer's Apprentice is a symphonic poem, the third is a symphony, and I'm still not sure if the second one is a Brahms overture, symphony, or something by Schumann the rhythmic shift at the recap sounds Brahmsian to me. From Wordnik.com. [Name That Tune!] Reference
I wish I were enough of a musician to describe his style; one site describes it as "a synthesis of European influences, particularly Brahmsian structure and counterpoint, and Wagnerian harmony, with a uniquely English nobility and grace.". From Wordnik.com. [Japes and Counterpoint] Reference
I would fault Scimone only on his failure to capture the full effect of Clementi's superb orchestration, in particular the almost Brahmsian richness provided by the three trombones and by the thick lower voicings of which Clementi (as in his solo keyboard works) was so fond. From Wordnik.com. [Finished Symphonies] Reference
Parry's Symphonic Variations seemed a dull collection compared to their obvious Brahmsian inspiration. From Wordnik.com. [Culture | guardian.co.uk] Reference
It's a weirdly febrile piece which weaves together Debussy-like sinuousness and Brahmsian density, plus a touch of d'Indy's own exoticism. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
Recorded 1991, this unassuming budget production packs quite a Brahmsian whollop, neither too brisk nor too inflated in the manner of the post-Glenn Gould / Leonard Bernstein clones. From Wordnik.com. [Audiophile Audition Headlines] Reference
As radical as his music was, and despite its inaccessibility to the traditional "ear", he was known to be technically proficient in the Brahmsian tradition and was in demand as a teacher. From Wordnik.com. [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference
Thanks!!! easy to get credit cards wrote on October 05, 2007 06: 35: 10 AM: forgetfulness monogamy Brahmsian regenerate assistant irreproducible wrote on September 22, 2007 04: 55: 57 AM. From Wordnik.com. [Virob] Reference
In 1885 he made the acquaintance of Alexander Ritter, who, together with Hans von Bülow, is supposed to have converted young Strauss, until then a good Brahmsian, to Wagnerism and modernism. From Wordnik.com. [Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers] Reference
This was a virtuosic performance, but it achieved the often elusive, typically Brahmsian goal of putting virtuosity at the service of bigger ideas, rather than celebrating it for its own sake. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
Hard to conceive, the blistering pace increases only to -- for the intensely lunatic coda -- gather up its forces from the keyboard upwards to call on supernatural after-burners and immolate our Brahmsian sensibilities with delicious madness. From Wordnik.com. [Audiophile Audition Headlines] Reference
This is a remarkably clever piece of writing, which, while it lacks the Brahmsian trade-mark of thirds in the bass, has much of that composer's best manner, less in his tricks of speech than in his tireless development and his substitution of monumental thematicism for lyric emotion. From Wordnik.com. [Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions] Reference
Del Tredici’s trademark neo-Romanticism nearly forgoes the prefix — four-fifths of the piece would fit the Brahmsian aesthetic of Boston a century ago — and the music’s titular Hungarian color has the authenticity of a Gypsy-themed Hollywood production number. From Wordnik.com. [International harvesters] Reference
The performance showed the expressive possibilities that have opened up for Carter’s music as the steady advance of technical proficiency has caught up with his vocabulary: that cello solo, for example (played by Marie-Michel Beauparlant), came off as positively Brahmsian. From Wordnik.com. [Magna Carter (1): Punctuality] Reference
Something - perhaps Brahmsian or Schubertian in Catherine French's violin and Oldfather's piano, (during Andrew Imbrie's 1997 work. From Wordnik.com. [The Tech - MIT's Student Newspaper] Reference
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